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Promethease

An associated freeware computer program called Promethease, also developed by the SNPedia team, allows users to compare personal genetics results against the SNPedia database, generating a report with information about a person's attributes, such as propensity to diseases, based on the presence of specific SNP's within their genome.[5]

In May 2008 Cariaso, using Promethease, won an online contest sponsored by 23andMe to determine as much information as possible about an anonymous woman based only on her genome. Cariaso won in all three categories of "accuracy, creativity and cleverness".[7] In 2009, the anonymous woman ("Lilly Mendel") was revealed to be 23andMe co-founder, Linda Avey, allowing a direct comparison between her actual traits and those predicted by Promethease a year earlier.[8]